Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Jan Claudius Völkel Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/livin%E2%80%99-edge-irregular-migration-egypt Since the mid-2000s, Egypt has developed into a main transit country for irregular migrants, either to Libya or to Israel. Now, as the traditional paths have largely been closed, many migrants and refugees are blocked in Cairo and along...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): David Risley Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypt%E2%80%99s-judiciary-obstructing-or-assisting-reform Introduction Prior to the 2011 revolution, Egypt’s surprisingly independent and assertive judiciary had gained recognition among scholars, political opposition figures, and many in the NGO community for strength and activism in defense of...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Susanna Myllylä Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/eegyptian-civil-society-transition%E2%80%94reflections-cairo%E2%80%99s-governance Greater Cairo, with its 20 million people,[1] faces wide-ranging challenges regarding its living conditions, as is typical of Southern megacities. One key factor is that 70 percent of Cairenes live in informal...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Oleg Svet, Elissa Miller Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/united-states-should-prevent-egyptian-shift-russia Roughly five decades since the Soviet foray into the Middle East vis-à-vis the Czech arms deal with Egypt in September 1955, Russia is reasserting its influence in Egypt. The deal marked the beginning of a brief period that saw Moscow...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Louise Sarant Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/food-needs-drive-cairo-residents-rooftops On the rooftop of a three-story brick building tucked inside a dusty alley of ‘Izbat al-Nasr, a poor and informal neighborhood southeast of Cairo, Leila Hussein crouches, tending to the basil and rocket she grows. The incessant cackling of geese...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Zeinab Abul-Magd Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/egypt%E2%80%99s-Military-business-need-change In today’s Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises that are in almost every sector and produce an extremely wide area of services and goods...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Paul Salem Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/dateline-egypt-roadmaps-refinancing-and-regional-roles In the past ten days Egypt held a first round of parliamentary elections, announced renewed loan talks with the IMF, experienced new clashes with militants in the Sinai, and joined multinational talks to end the war in Syria. These headlines...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Maria Golia Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/taking-egypt%E2%80%99s-big-bureaucracy Since the 1990s, the need for streamlined procedures to facilitate business, trade and investment has grown to crisis proportions in Egypt. But the political will to deliver administrative reform was always lacking, not least because it would involve lay-offs...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Maria Golia Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/changing-cairo%E2%80%99s-spaces-bottom In mid-June, just before Ramadan, the pre-dawn calm of downtown Cairo was shattered by the sound of heavy machinery. The municipality had decided to repair the battered sidewalks, a fairly regular occurrence since shoddy concrete tiles are typically used...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Jean-François Seznec, Samer Mosis Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/zohr-gas-field-boon-egypt Italian energy company Eni announced on August 30 that it had discovered a deep-water gas field 93 miles north of Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.[1] The field, named Zohr, holds an estimated 30 trillion cubic feet (cft)[2] of natural gas (NG) reserves...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Geoffrey Aronson Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/improved-egypt-israel-relations-through-sinai-crisis-will-they-last Egyptian diplomats rarely have a good word to say about U.S. policies these days. In contrast, they are enthusiastic in their praise of the close relations between Cairo and Jerusalem—centered on counterterror security...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Maria Golia Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/cairo-metro-everythings-connected Inaugurated in 1987, Cairo’s Metro was Africa’s first inner-city underground and the embodiment of Hosni Mubarak’s promise to modernize Egypt’s infrastructure. It is hard to think of a Mubarak-era project that was better planned, more efficiently executed, or has...
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